Mold for linotype-machines.



W. H. ORPEN, JR.

MOLD FOR LINOTYPE ma mas.

' APPLICATION FILED JULY 12.1912. I

1,129,829, Patented Feb. 23, 1915.

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WITNESSES: INVENTOR 5 2! fj1g.4= William H. Or'pen Jr.

ATTORNEY W. H. ORPEN, JR, MOLD FOR. LINOTYPE MACHINES. APPLICATION FILED JULY 12,1912.

1 129,829. Patented Feb. 23, 1915.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. ORPEN, JR., OF

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO INTERNATIONAL TYPESETTING MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW Patented Feb. 23, 1915. Serial No. 709,095.

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MOLD FOR LINOTYPE-MACHINES. 1,129,829. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 12, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VILLIAM H. Onrnn, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Molds for Linotype-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in linotype machines and more particularly to the line-casting mold thereof, and the primary object of the invention is to provide an improved mold construction which enables the liners employed to space the cap and body of the mold and length of the line of type, to be inserted and removed easily and with facility, and when invention; and Fig. 9 is inserted theliners are located accurately in directions both longitudinally and transversely of the mold, thereby insuring the production of a line of type or slug possessing the desired dimensions, it being unnecessary in the preferred embodiment of the invention to detach the mold cap from the body in attaching the liners to obtain different desired mold adjustments.

To these and other ends, the inv ntion consists in certain improvements, an combinations and arrangements of parts, all as will be hereinafter inore fully described, the novel features being pointed out particularly in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a perspective view 0 a type-casting mold constructed in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the invention; Fig. 2 represents a front elevation, partly in section, of the 'mold as shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 represents a section on the line 33 of Fig.2; Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the ers removed from the mold; Fig. 5 is a perspective view, partly in section, of a typecasti mold showing another form of the invention; F i 6 represents a horizontal section throng the mold as shown in Fig. 5 and taken in the plane of the top surfaces of the liners; Fig. 7 is a perspective view of one of the liners adapted to be used 'with the constructions shown in Figs. 5 and 6; Fig. 8 represents a. transverse section of a mold showing another form or embodiment of the a perspective view of one of the liners adapted to be used with the construction shown in Fig. 8.

to determine the' Similar parts are designated by the same reference characters in the several views.

A mold of the same general construction as that used ordinarily on the well known linoty'pe machines is shown in the accompanying drawing and will be described hereinafter in detail, the improvements embodying the present invention being applied thereto. It will be understood, however, that different constructions may be adopted in carrying the invention into practice embodying the principles and the essential features of the invention. .In the present instance, the mold which in the drawing is of the form usually employed upon the well known linotype machine, the face of the body having ledges 2 constituting matrix keepers which serve to position the line of matrices in proper casting position with respect to the mold, and a cap 3 serves to close the top of the mold, a pair of screws 4 being employed in the mold body an cap together, 5 being formed and the cap.

According to the present invention, the liners 6 and 7 which are interposed between the mold body and cap and which serve to space properly the distance between these parts of the mold as well as to gage ac curately the length of the line of type to be cast are of improved construction and cooperate with devices on the mold whereby these liners may be removed and inserted readily and with facility and accurately positioned in directions both longitudinally and transversely of the mold. In the construction shown, these liners have longitudinally extending slots or recesses 8 and 9 which extend inwardly from the outer ends of the liners and the latter are also formed with transversely extending slots or recesses 10 and 11 which extend inwardlyfrom the adjacent lateral edges of the liners. These slots in the liners which open to adjacent edges thereof cooperate with devices on the mold to produce the results before stated, there being a pair of dowel pins 12 and 13 suitably fixed to the mold toward its opposite ends to engage in the respective end slots 8 and 9 of the liners and an additional pair of dowels 14 and '15 to engage the laterally opening slots 10 and 11 of the liners. These latter dowels 14 and 15 are l designates the body of resent instance to clamp the ing screws themselves may cooperate with the walls of the laterally opening slots in the liners and the hollow dowels may then be omitted or, the dowels may be made solid and placed beside the clamping screws.

The projections formed by the dowels 12' and 13, and 14- and 15,may be secured in any suitable way to the mold, in the Hpresent instance the dowels 12 and 13 are tted in alined apertures 16 in the mold body and cap and are fastened or locked in position by the keys 1? which may be extended as shown through the walls of the mold body, and the hollow dowels 14 and 15 are held in position by being tightly fitted and forced into place. The liners are inserted and removed by edgewise movements thereof in appropriate directions, and to facilitate removal of these liners, each of them may be provided with a notch 18 and the mold cap may be formed with recesses 19 which expose the notches in'the respective liners when the latter are in operative pos tion, as shown in Fig. 1, and enabling a suitable implement to be inserted into the notch of each liner and to thereby remove it from its position between the mold body and cup. In a mold of this construction, each liner may be readily inserted between the mold body and cap while the clamping screws are loosened by first inserting the notched end of the liner in a manner to cause the end notch 8, for example, to re ceive the pin or projection 12, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, and then swinging the liner into the place between the mold body and cap about the pin 12 as a pivot or center, this pin 12 hearing against the inner end of the slot 8, and as the liner assumes a position in longitudinal alinement with the mold, the hollow dowel 14 will enter the laterally opening slot 10, this dowel abutting against the inner end of the slot 10 the moment the liner assumes a po sition in proper alinement with the mold. The side and end slots in each liner and the cooperating projections formed by the dowels are so spaced and located that when the liner is swung into alinement with the mold further movement of the liner will be prevented and the liner will be positioned accurately in directions both longitudinally and transversely of the mold. To facilitate entrance of the hollow dowel M in the laterally opening slot 10, the wall 19 of the laterally opening slot 10, which is adjacent to the slot 8. is formed on a radius. When the liners are inserted and occupy a proper operative position, they are retained in such position by tightening of the clamping screws 4, and in order to remove the liners, it is only necessary to loosen the screw 4 suliiciently to relieve the pressure or clamping action upon the liners whereupon the latter may be swung late-rally from the mold and removed by an operation which is the reverse of that employed in inserting the liners. It is to be observed that mere loosening of the clamping screws is suilicient to permit replacing of the liners, that is to say, it is unnecessary to remove or detach the mold cap from the clamping screws with respect to the mold body.

The foregoing describes particularly the I construction shown in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, but it is obvious that various modifications may be employed based upon the same principlc, Figs. to 9 inclusive being examples of such modifications.

In the construction shown in Figs. 5 to.7 inclusive, the mold body 1 formed with the matrix keepers 2, the mold cap 3, and the clamping screws 4 may correspond substantially to such parts as shown in the preceding figures, and in this modified construc tion, the dowels 8 and 9 and the hollow dowels 1e and 1:? are used, these dowels being located in this instance substantially as in the preceding embodiment of the inven tion. The liners 20 and 21, however, are formed somewhat differently, that is to say, these liners are formed with laterally opening slots 22 and 23 which correspond to the laterally opening slots 10 and 11 of the liners 6 and 7 and cooperate with the hollow dowels 1i and 15, and these liners are formed with laterally opening slots 24 and 25 to receive the dowels 8 and 9. The liners in this embodiment of the invention may be readily inserted and removed in substantially the same manner as the liners shown in Figs. 1 to l inclusive, that is to say, by first engaging the dowels 8 and 9 in the slots 2% and 25 of the liners while the latter are placed at an angle to the length of the mold, and then swinging the liners toward operative position, thereby causing the hollow dowels 14 and 15 to enter the slots and 23 whereby the liners are accurately positioned in directions both longitudinally and transversely of the mold.

In that form 01 the invention shown in Figs. 8 and 9, the clamping screws 26 and 27 and the dowels 28 and 29 are spaced in a direction laterally of the mold, the clamping screws being shown provided with hollow dowels 30 and 31. The liners 32 and 33 in this embodiment of the invention have pairs of slots 34 and 35 and 36 and 3'7 respectively which extend inwardly from the outer ends of the liners, those walls of the slots 34 and 36 adjacent to the slots 35 and 3? respectively being curved, as shown at 38 and 39, to facilitate the entrance of. the hollow is to say it v shown in thie form of the invention may als'o be inserted. and removed readily by swinging movements, the liners being applied, for emniple by engaging the slots and 37 with iho alOWQ-li 2S and 29 while the liners extend substantially at right; angles to the mold and than swinging the liners iowardly towerd. operative position, the dowels :30 and then entering the siota 34 and 36 and. positionin: the liners in directions both longitudinally and transversely oi the mold (lbvioueiy, the liners may be removed by at revereeorderof operation. In both 7ra(;-iili "flulis, the liners may be removed and li'lflliiitfil without the necessity of removing or detaching the mold cap, that ily neeessm' to loosen the clamping so! "hen it is d esired to insert or remove 51-h;- liner i and tightening of theee flora A serv e to firmly aware the liners in. operative position.

llhos is rhiinied iet-- l, A linoiiy -12 mold embodying a, liner having o en (r38 or recesses which extend rospoctiwly into a. side and on end ihereo and are adapted to engage with projections in the mold. thereby positioning the liner longitiulinzilly and transversely when ii; is inserted between the mold mp and body.

2. A liootype mold embodying u iner ad pix-d l'm) insertion odgowis bowel? members and having open slots extending at alilioront ngles the liner whereby it pro;

dinully owl trzmsw hm the mo d to and. lo 5" elation the l '5 in a linen p1: mzmhino, a mold embody into the respective "slotg I adapted to engage said in combination a, mold body, a mold cap, projections extending between the body and cap, and; a. liner having s1ots.open respectively at the ride and end edges thereof and projections whereby the liner may be located in operative position between the mold body and cap and removed and inserted edgewise without withdrawing or disturbing said projections.

4. In a linoty e HlfiCh'lI16,.L casting mold embodying; a body, a cap, and liners form-, ing a moll cavity between them, a (pair of between sai body projections extending and cap beyond each end of said cavity, the edge'wiso and liners adopted to beinserte rotated between said body and cap and hav ing slots one to receive and cooperate with one of said projections when the liner is inserted edgewise to position the liner trans vorsely, and the other slot to reoeive the other projection when the liner is rotated I to position the same longitudinally'with respect to the mold.

5, In a line casting mold, the combination of a mold body, a mold cap, a pair of projections extending between the said body and cap, and it liner having open slots to receive the respective projections between the mold C241) and body, the liners being insorted edgewise between them, one of said nio 'ectione i'rr-rming a pivot about which the liner swings and serving to position the liner longggitiidimill i of the mo (1, and the other projection serving to position the liner in a direction tii-ensversely of the mold.

in testimony whereof I have hereunto hand in presence oi: two subscribing WILLIAM ill ORPEN, JR. i litnessme W. 55. Soooimn, C. iHANBEN. 

